Off topic except not: I understand the concept of sponsored links, but for the love of god, can someone please get rid of the “Susan Boyle is So Skinny Now and Looks Gorgeous” link that is popping up fucking everywhere on this site?! These are the microaggressions, the tiny, constant whispers of objectification and…

The rehab center where Weiner is being treated separates men and women

It’s like those infomercials for the Insanity Workout. “This workout isn’t for everybody. It’s probably too intense for you.”

A thousand times this. Maybe the next phase in our democracy, following the inevitable collapse of American civilization, will include a Presidency Draft. We pick you. You get no say.

Not really, but 86% of men call skirts dresses.

Honest to god. “Grab her by the brain” is the most hysterically missing-the-point attempt at male captaining I’ve ever seen.

I can’t even imagine having an affair. I have a husband and a job and two kids under 4. In what universe do I have the capacity to care about a single other person’s feelings? In what universe do I have the available minutes in the day to get some strange?

Right? I was reading this whole piece and thinking, good god, sometimes good writing is just arousing. The pulse quickens, the skin heats.

That Naomi walk montage? Gave me the honest-to-god, no-lie goosebumps. I almost took a picture.

Hey there! Fellow mom of a son here. I don’t have any books on how to raise a feminist son to share with you, unfortunately, but I do have a few thoughts, borne out of nearly identical anxiety when I learned I was having a boy.

I totally hear that. This question came up for me not because I’m trying to put a hierarchy on abuse (though I guess maybe that’s the net effect of my question, so, blurg), but because I keep reading comments where people say in one way or another, god, I hope it’s not true; for the sake of the kids, I hope Brad…

This brings up a question for me, posed here to the hive mind. I was not abused as a child, so I am curious what others thing about this:

It could be Angie herself.

The rare actual out-loud laugh.

At first I was like, that bathing suit is not so bad. I like that bathing suit.

The annonymity is kind of intoxicating actually. I can speak my darkest secrets into an unhearing universe.

Me too. And I’m lovely. No idea.

“that doesn’t mean that such civilizations don’t regularly come and go in the universe, shouting past each other tens of millions of years apart in the wide open darkness.”

Bathtub Stu doesn’t advertise.

That was really beautiful.